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for a cutting, and the latter should be taken off when an ac- 

 cumulation of sap has apparently been produced. The 

 amputation in the case of the ligature, as well as in that 

 of the ring, must be made below the circles, and the cut- 

 ting must be so planted as to have the callus covered with 

 earth. 



September 19, 1820. A communication was this day re- 

 ceived from Mr. Daniel Mac Leod. gardener to Charles 

 Hampden Turner, Esq. at Rooksnest, in Surrey, of his 

 Method of growing Cape Brocoli, by which his plants not 

 only produce very superior sized heads, but never button. 

 In the end of May, after having prepared the ground, he 

 treads it firm, and by the assistance of a line, sows his seeds 

 in rows two feet apart, dropping three or four seeds into holes 

 two feet distance from each other in the row. When the 

 seeds vegetate he destroys all except the strongest, which are 

 protected from the fly, by sprinkling a little soot over the 

 ground ; as the plants advance they are frequently flat hoed 

 until they bear their flowers; they are once earthed up, during 

 their growth. A specimen of the Brocoli thus grown was 

 exhibited by Mr. Mac Leod on the 5th of September ; the 

 head was compact and handsome, measuring two feet nine 

 inches in circumference, and weighing, when divested of its 

 leaves and stalk, three pounds ; the largest of its leaves was 

 upwards of two feet long. Mr. Mac Leod adopts the same 

 mode in the cultivation of spring sown Cauliflowers, Let- 

 tuces, and almost all other vegetables, avoiding transplant- 

 ing as much as possible. 



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